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the thing that drives me insane is all the people patiently explaining that spacex rockets are "supposed to explode" because this is "rapid iteration" so they're just trying to throw shit up in the air as fast as possible to see how it breaks

like. no! you are not supposed to apply software development methodology to things that can explode. that is very much not a thing you should do. you should not 'rapidly iterate' on space rockets. software engineers should have to undergo deprogramming before being allowed to work in other fields.

"Move fast and break things" isn't even actually good in software! This is all dumbass ideology from dumb fucking assholes who have convinced programmers to eat shit and like it and are trying to extend that to all engineering disciplines

'move fast and break things' was the policy of Facebook and directly led to the Myanmar genocide, so maybe we can treat that particular position as if it's just, like, wrong? and bad?

Mech Pilot who is planning to weaponize the square cube law.

"Square cubes? Psh. Call me when they weaponize round cubes." — Lionheart "Euclid" Tannen

I’m always hitting paywalls on today’s internet, and I often think about the design language that many of them use, which is to display the first couple lines and then fade it out as it goes along, presumably in a bid to provide a taste of what you’re missing out on, though to me, this device always evoked the image of the author getting farther and farther away from you, physically, as they tried to tell you about this thing that was important to them, as though they were on a boat pulling away from the dock as you stood on shore, their words at first intelligible, whether they are meant to be news, or an in-depth report, or a thoughtful essay, or something else, but meanings loosening as they begin to blend into the sounds around them, embraced, swallowed by the great din of the world, until nothing discernible of that singular voice remained.